STATUS OF THE “ATTRACT CONTROL” TECHNOLOGY IN BOLL WEEVILPREVENTION, SUPPRESSION ERADICATION PROGRAMS IN LATINAMERICA DURING CROP CYCLES 2001/2002 2002/2003

摘要

The use of the "Attract & Control" technology (based on the Bait Stick) in boll weevil control, prevention, suppression anderadication continues to make good progress and is being positioned to play a more important role in 1.9 million acres ofarea-wide programs in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Paraguay.The “Bait Stick” (known as the BWACT in the USA, the Tubo Mata Bicudo or TMB in Brazil and the Tubo Mata Picudo orTMP in Spanish speaking Latin America) has been successfully used by Paraguay for 7 years (in about 500,000 ac.) and byColombia for 3 years (in about 100,000 ac.) in their National Cotton Programs. In state programs in Northeast Brazil(Alagoas, Ceará, Paraíba, Pernambuco and Rio Grande do Norte, currently about 250,000 ac.), the TMB is being deployed asa strategic component to reactivate family farm cotton production and expand "colored cotton" production; while in the centralstates of Goias and Mata Grosso, the TMB is being evaluated as an effective, economical and environmentally friendlyproduct to stop the exploding weevil populations in about 475,000 acres. For 8 years, the country of Argentina (in about600,000 ac.) has successfully used pheromone traps and TMPs as part of their program to detect, eradicate and prevent theestablishment of boll weevils in their major cotton zones. The Argentines (SENASA) have a strong desire to collaborate onsimilar programs with Brazil in the States of Parana and Sao Paulo (about 150,000 ac.) and with Paraguay in its departments(same as states) of Neembucu, Misiones and Itapua (about 100,000 ac.); SENASA wants to move the “line of defense againstthe boll weevil” further away from their cotton growing zones.